Day 1 of the UCLA quarterback competition was off to a routine start as the Bruins opened spring practice Tuesday.
Jerry Neuheisel and Asantti Woulard handled the team drills, while Josh Rosen watched and did individual drills. The two-at-a-time plan...

Colonial Athletic Association football teams will play 13 Football Bowl Subdivision teams and 23 non-conference FCS teams, as the league released its composite schedule Tuesday.
All 12 CAA teams will play at least one FBS team, with defending champ...

USC Athletic Director Pat Haden will not attend a College Football Playoff meeting in Indianapolis this week because of a new Indiana law that has been called anti-gay.
“I am the proud father of a gay son. In his honor, I will not be attending the...

ACC schools won an impressive 10 games against schools from the other Power 5 conferences – the most among any leagues. They also won close to 75 percent (43) of their non-conference games in 2014.
Several key matchup early on will highlight...

Jameis Winston has spent much of the past two months crisscrossing the nation, sharpening his quarterback skills and trying to convince NFL teams he's learned from mistakes made off the field and ready to become the face of a franchise.
A lot of his effort was geared toward the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have the first pick this year's NFL draft.
Heading into Winston's pro day at Florida State on Tuesday, by all accounts the 2013 Heisman winner has made a strong impression.
All the Bucs' decision-...

There’s no dream too big for USC sophomore Adoree’ Jackson.
Jackson, who plays cornerback, receiver and kick returner, is intent about winning the Thorpe Award -- for the top defensive back in college football -- Heisman Trophy and a medal in track and field at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Jackson, 5 feet 11 and 185 pounds, said he crafted his goals growing up in Belleville, Ill., to prove to his city “that you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.”...

Spring football is typically a tedious but necessary grind. It's a chance for coaches to evaluate and players to impress.
UCLA' sessions this year, which begin Tuesday, will have a little more intrigue.
The Bruins will be without offensive line coach Adrian Klemm, who has been suspended while alleged NCAA violations are investigated. UCLA also is breaking in a new defensive coordinator, Tom Bradley, a longtime Penn State assistant.
Those situations should be interesting to watch. But generating...

When Chris Beatty arrived in January at Virginia, he'd just left a place where he'd witnessed about the closest representation to brilliance at running back as can be found anywhere in the college game.
That's what it was like to coach Wisconsin's loaded backfield, where Melvin Gordon ran for 2,587 yards — the second-best single-season rushing total in Football Bowl Subdivision history — last season on his way to winning the Doak Walker Award and finishing second in Heisman Trophy voting....

It appears the bowl schedule will get a little more crowded as Tucson, Arizona and Little Rock, Arkansas are the latest cities to reportedly host a bowl game in 2015.
Both cities have shown 'strong interest' in hosting postseason games according to ESPN.com's Brett McMurphy and both are expected to submit application for games before the Wednesday deadline.
If both venues secure two conferences to support a game and a television deal, there is nothing that should prevent them from getting games...

As the Big 12 continues to work towards making a push for its first College Football Playoff spot, the league must continue to strengthen its non-conference schedule. Here are five non-conference games to keep an eye on this season:
Texas at Notre Dame
Saturday, Sept. 5
The Buzz: These two traditional college football powers will kick off a home-and-home series that begins at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. This is just the 11th meeting between these two schools and the first one since 1996....